head to head
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor LegacyvsNeed for Speed: Carbon - Own the City
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor LegacyNeed for Speed: Carbon - Own the City
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City leans harder on variance: traffic and rubber-banding randomness
Optimization5 vs 4
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy leans harder on optimization: Power-cell routing across the connected world
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

